Books in the Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology series

Informed by psychological, medical, neuropsychological, and gerontological perspectives, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the principles that characterize a life course approach to cognitive aging, including consideration of genetics, early life experiences, motivation, emotion, social contexts, and lifestyle interventions.

Leading scientists reveal how to enhance instruction and student achievement across many domains, including science, mathematics, reading, and writing. Directed towards graduate students and seasoned scientists interested in education, it is also accessible to practitioners and students who are interested in improving learning and achievement.

This book showcases a rich analysis on how imagination is understood across several disciplines of study such as anthropology, archaeology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and the arts. In reading this book, researchers, students and practitioners will learn about fundamental issues of relevance in relation to imagination.

This book showcases a rich analysis on how imagination is understood across several disciplines of study such as anthropology, archaeology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and the arts. In reading this book, researchers, students and practitioners will learn about fundamental issues of relevance in relation to imagination.

This third edition of the acclaimed Handbook offers a fully up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible, one-stop resource on health psychology, the study and application of psychological and behavioural processes in health, illness and healthcare. It is essential for doctors, health care professionals, mental health care professionals, academics, researchers, and students.

This handbook brings together leading scholars from around the world who address the topic of consciousness from a wide variety of perspectives from philosophical to anthropological to neuroscientific. An authoritative desk reference which will also be suitable as an advanced textbook.

This Handbook describes the extent and shape of computing education research, and articulates its boundaries with partner disciplines. Written by leading researchers from academia and industry (including Google and Microsoft), it provides both a guide for existing researchers and a practical resource for those new to the field.

This is a review of the psychological literature on wisdom by leading experts in the field. It covers the philosophical and sociocultural foundations of wisdom, and showcases the measurement and teaching of wisdom. The connection of wisdom to intelligence and personality is explained alongside its relationship with morality and ethics.

This is an ideal reference for those looking to understand, study, and practice community engagement. It discusses the different ways individuals - including faculty and management in organizations - engage in their communities. It also supplies case studies, best practices, and theoretical approaches to the study of community engagement.

Recent technological and theoretical innovations have enabled humans to gain unprecedented insights into the contributions of the brain to creative thought. This unique volume brings together contributions by the very best scholars from several fields to offer a comprehensive overview of cutting edge research on this important and fascinating topic.

An international overview of the current state of our knowledge in sociocultural psychology that focuses on how human actions, mediated with cultural artefacts within social practices, produce meaningful personal experiences and shape behaviour. This second edition provides expanded coverage of art and aesthetics, economics, history, religion and politics.

This is a valuable reference that employs empirical methods to improve our understanding of the economic mind and economic behaviour. This second edition includes new chapters on a variety of topics, including neuroeconomics, unemployment, debt, behavioural public finance, and cutting-edge work on fuzzy trace theory and robots, cyborgs and consumption.

This book studies how experts differ from non-experts in terms of development, training, reasoning, knowledge, and social support. Various aspects of expertise such as intelligence, differences in brain activity, self-regulated learning, deliberate practice, aging, and creativity, are discussed.

Focusing on everything from basic research practices to cutting-edge technology, this book is essential for student learning and professional research.

The updated second edition of the only handbook to offer a comprehensive analysis of research and theory in the field of multimedia learning, or learning from words and images. It examines research-based principles to determine the most effective methods of multimedia instruction and uses cognitive theory to explain how these methods work.

Psycholinguistics is a central topic in cognitive science. This collection of chapters is written by leading researchers from a wide array of subfields, who have been shaping the field of psycholinguistics over the last decade. This is required reading for advanced researchers, graduate students and upper-level undergraduates.

This Handbook covers virtually all of the many facets of scientific research on creativity, including the related areas of innovation and imagination. It includes cutting-edge work from psychology, education, business, entrepreneurship, and neuroscience to present a complete overview of the nuanced topic of creativity.

This handbook presents an integrative understanding of infant development, across neuroscience, context, and policy from leading experts.

This handbook presents the rational and scientific foundations of intercultural training to students, managers, and professionals undertaking international assignments. It discusses the findings from many disciplines that zero in on cultural transitions, including emotion studies, neuroscience, and social work.

This is a key guidebook for all those interested in the breadth and depth of addiction processes. It provides an understanding of substance and behavioral addictions' conceptual underpinnings, etiology, prevention, and treatment. Written by leaders in the addictions field, this handbook pushes research and practice to new horizons.

This is a key guidebook for all those interested in the breadth and depth of addiction processes. It provides an understanding of substance and behavioral addictions' conceptual underpinnings, etiology, prevention, and treatment. Written by leaders in the addictions field, this handbook pushes research and practice to new horizons.

This handbook provides an accessible summary of cutting-edge personality research in all its forms, giving students, researchers, and practitioners a comprehensive resource for understanding personality theory and application. It also introduces the leading methods in the field, from molecular genetics to narrative inquiry.

Psychology, Health and clinical psychology, Experimental psychology

Learn how applications of emotion research can improve organizational effectiveness, in terms of employee behavior, teamwork, leadership, and organizational climate. Several disciplines are combined to offer ideas and solutions to scholars or workplace leaders who implement interventions and programs to manage workplace emotion more effectively.

This handbook provides an accessible summary of cutting-edge personality research in all its forms, giving students, researchers, and practitioners a comprehensive resource for understanding personality theory and application. It also introduces the leading methods in the field, from molecular genetics to narrative inquiry.

This book is an essential resource for the rapidly evolving field of personality disorders for researchers and clinicians at all career stages in disciplines including psychology, psychiatry, social work, and nursing. It covers the causes, course, assessment, and treatment of personality disorders with commentaries and a rejoinder for each chapter.

This book is an essential resource for the rapidly evolving field of personality disorders for researchers and clinicians at all career stages in disciplines including psychology, psychiatry, social work, and nursing. It covers the causes, course, assessment, and treatment of personality disorders with commentaries and a rejoinder for each chapter.

Providing a comprehensive examination of the psychology of prejudice from its roots to its manifestations and consequences, this concise student edition of the award-winning Cambridge Handbook includes new pedagogical features such as learning objectives, key terms and definitions, summary points, discussion questions, and instructor's test bank.